As healthcare in rural areas continues to evolve, and hospitals are facing threats of closing their doors, telemedicine is playing a key role in improving access to care. More and more hospitals are shutting down due to financial reasons and telemedicine can solve that problem. TeleHealth Solution’s Hospitalists can drive volume, improve quality of care, and reduce costs by reducing transfers to outside hospitals. All of this can be done at a fraction of the cost of an in-house Hospitalists. Many rural hospitals do not have nocturnal physicians in-house which leads to no nocturnal admissions or increased transfers to outside hospitals when a patient is experiencing acute changes and requires a higher level of care.

Our virtual Hospitalists can provide the same level of care as an in-house physician at a fraction of the cost. We can provide nocturnal coverage, or anytime to coverage to provide medical care for your rural hospital. We can also provide mid level supervision or cross coverage while saving your hospital money. With our services, you will be able to keep revenue in house as we decrease transfers to outside hospitals and have the ability to admit more medically complex patients.

TeleHealth Solution uses the most up to date Telemedicine technology. Our carts are equipped with the tools our virtual physicians need to properly evaluate and treat a patient. Our telemedicine cart includes a high definition camera, 12-lead EKG, a virtual stethoscope, a tympanic thermometer, and a pulse oximeter. All of our equipment is provided to you at no cost. All you need to provide is basic wifi and a telephone line.

If a patient is admitted in to the Emergency Room, our virtual Hospitalists will communicate directly with your ER doctors. Our Hospitalist will discuss the patient’s medical status over the phone and will perform a virtual medical evaluation and will take over care for that patient during their on-call shift.

If a patient is already present in your hospital and experiences an acute medical change, our physicians are on call and available to provide treatment in real time. With our equipment and your nursing staff, we can evaluate the patient, order additional labs and tests, and form a treatment plan. Our same nocturnal physician will be available the remainder of the shift until the patient is handed off to your daytime in-house physician or one of our daytime virtual physicians and will communicate the plan of care. Please see our step-by-step interaction here for more information.

Our TeleHospitalists are capable of managing acutely ill patients with complex medical histories just like your in-house physicians. We can order additional labs, tests, and medication as needed. With the use of diagnostic tools, we are able to diagnose a patient and form an appropriate plan of care without transferring them to another hospital. We can manage a multitude of scenarios depending on the hospital’s capabilities.

TeleHealth Solution can create a custom plan based on your hospital’s needs. We can provide nocturnal coverage, daytime coverage, cross coverage, mid level supervision, and more.

Your nursing staff can call TeleHealth Solution’s virtual doctors as many times as needed during our on-call shifts. If a patient is in distress and requires care, we are available. We do not limit the number of calls per shift or per patient, and can be accessed as long as it takes to provide top-notch medical care to your patients.

Rural doctors are typically over burdened, as they are scarce, but very valuable to your community. Rural doctors often round in clinics, area nursing homes, and hospitals all in the same day and we want to relieve them of that burden. We can provide nocturnal solutions or daytime solutions for your hospital so your rural clinic doctors can focus on the outpatient setting. We also know how difficult it is to hire new doctors if they know they will be over burdened with call. Allow TeleHealth Solution to provide nocturnal or daytime call, cross coverage, or mid-level supervision so your in-house physicians do not have to.

Our doctors are relieving the burden of diagnosing and treating patients over the phone during off hours when your doctors cannot be onsite. This improves your attending physician’s quality of life and improves access to care for your patients, resulting in healthier and happier patients and doctors.

Nurses also love having TeleHealth Solution physicians on call. We fully train your nursing staff and teach them how to use our technology to help provide the best medical care for your patients. The nursing staff is more confident and more comfortable working when they know they have a skilled virtual Hospitalists just a phone call away.

Patients and their families are typically thrilled to find out that their area hospital offers access to TeleHealth Solution’s physicians. They find comfort knowing they can be evaluated and treated in a nearby hospital without having to be transferred to a hospital further away from home. Our physicians can communicate with the patient and their family, and discuss the plan of care. Our physicians can also have end of life conversations with patient’s families if desired.

Having our skilled TeleHospitalists is just as effective as having an in-house provider. We can run code blues virtually, as we work through your nursing staff and our telemedicine equipment.

TeleHealth Solution will provide your hospital with skilled Hospitalists at a fraction of the cost of an in-house physician. We have the ability to provide the same level of care, will lower your transfer rate to outside facilities, and have the ability to admit patients during all hours, which will grow your census. All of these combined will keep revenue in your hospital.